Participating organisations include NASA, the University of the West Indies, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Miami, the University of Arizona, the University of Bristol (UK), and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research and Institute for Atmospheric Physics.

The observatory is headed by a consortium of institutes. Three of them are German: the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Jena), the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz), the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (Leipzig); and several Russian, including Sukachev Institute of Forest (Krasnoyarsk), AM Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Moscow), St Petersburg State University, and the Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk.